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Monday, 3 March 2014

7 Questions with #Author Danny Wynn (#AmReading #Adventure)

1. Tell us a bit about your family.The family in which I was a kid, not the new family in which I’m the father: The former was highly dysfunctional and impoverished.

2. How do you work through self-doubts and fear?I Keep going, and remind myself that these patches are part of the process, and they have arisen before and I’ve broken through.

3. What scares you the most?Debilitating health problems, and anything bad happening to my wife or kids

4. What makes you happiest?The most satisfying intellectual experience I’ve ever had was recently working closely with my brilliant editor on the book I’m promoting now. It was just two brains working together over the internet, focused intensely in every respect on my creation and how to make it the best that it could be.

6. What’s your weakest character trait?There are so many bad ones. Let’s just say I’m a bad person trying to do better.

7. Why do you write?The magic of books has worked for me from a very early age, and it was only natural that I would want to try to create some of that magic, myself.

How far would you go to add excitement to a life you felt was boring and meaningless?

For seventy-three-year-old Jaime, the answer takes him by surprise. Accustomed to a lonely life high up in the mountains on the western coast of Mallorca, his dull routine is suddenly shattered when a man parachutes from a plane and lands nearby. The plane crashes; the man lives.

It’s a drug smuggling operation gone bad. But Stefan, the man from the sky, has escaped with eight kilos of cocaine in a gym bag. Jaime brings Stefan home and is soon entangled in Stefan’s attempts to sell the cocaine and start a new life.

As they dodge Parisian drug dealers and corrupt Mallorcan police, Jaime’s search for excitement and Stefan’s resolve to find stability lead them both down dangerous paths.